The group met approximately twenty times at Buckingham Palace between June and November 1910, with the Conservatives represented by Arthur Balfour, Lord Cawdor, Lord Lansdowne and Austen Chamberlain.

The Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the 2003 provincial election, and Galt lost his seat to Liberal candidate Lou Rinaldi by approximately 2, 500 votes.

In the 1957 election, the Liberals won 200, 000 more votes nationwide than the Progressive Conservatives ( 40. 75 % Liberals to 38. 81 % PC ).

The Labour Party currently has an overall majority on the council, holding 40 seats, with the Conservatives holding 11.

By-elections and defections in 2005 altered the distribution of seats within the council with Labour holding 46 seats, Conservatives holding 40, Liberal Democrats holding 30, the People's Justice Party holding 2 and independent councillors holding a further 2.

The NDP ( and its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ) had been the traditional Western protest party for most of the last 40 years, but since the 1990s they attempted to make inroads in Quebec and joined the Conservatives and Liberals in supporting the Charlottetown Accord.

In the 2010 General Election, the Conservatives gained the largest share of the region by popular vote and took control of the number of seats, with 40 % of the region's electorate voting Conservative, 31 % Labour and 21 % Liberal Democrat ( very similar to the East Midlands ).

The Conservatives ' conversion to the concept of a welfare state came too late, and the Tories were routed in the October 1935 election, winning only 40 seats to 173 for Mackenzie King's Liberals.

Both of these factors contributed to an upset victory in the 1899 provincial election, with Conservatives taking 22 seats out of 40.

The result was a narrow victory for Macdonald's Conservatives, who won 22 of 40 seats.

In addition to the 100 councillors, there were sixteen Aldermen who divided 11 Conservative and 5 Labour, so that the Conservatives actually had 76 seats to 40 for Labour following the election.

It shaped the province for the next 40 years, as the Conservatives won a massive majority in the Legislature, and would remain in government for the next 40 consecutive years – most of that time with majority governments until the mid-1970s.

It is currently made up of 40 seats, with the Conservatives as ruling party with 24 councillors at the latest local election in June 2009.

Later in the 2009 elections the Conservatives managed to hold on to their majority within the council by securing 24 of the revised number of 40 seats, however were the only Conservative council which actually lost seats that year.

The Conservatives remained a minor force in Saskatchewan politics for 40 years after this defeat.

The Conservatives ' popular vote fell from almost 60 % to just over 40 %, and took nine seats, forming the Official Opposition.

In the 2006 election Szabo and the Liberals were re-elected again, however the Liberal vote dropped sharply, with the Conservatives coming within 5 % of winning the riding, getting 40 % of the vote, one of the best performances for them in the Greater Toronto Area.

Some ministers wanted St. Laurent to stay on and offer to form a minority government, following the logic that the popular vote had supported them and even though their Parliamentary minority was smaller than the Conservatives, the Liberals ' more recent governmental experience would make them a more effective minority.

Though he voted for the Labour Party in their 1945 landslide victory, because he wanted to punish the Conservative Party for the Munich agreement, after the war he joined the Conservatives and worked for the Conservative Research Department under Rab Butler, where his colleagues included Iain Macleod and Reginald Maudling.

One month later, on October 4, Mike Duffy, now a Conservative senator ( appointed by Harper ), said " It is possible that you could change prime minister without having an election ," and that some Conservatives wanted Harper as prime minister.

One month later, on October 4, Mike Duffy, now a Conservative senator ( appointed by Harper ), said " It is possible that you could change prime minister without having an election ," and that some Conservatives wanted Harper as prime minister.

The Conservatives on the other hand, wanted a centralist government.

Unlike most national newspapers, the Daily Star has limited articles on politics and has rarely shown clear support for any specific party or leader ; although in the run-up to the 2010 general election the newspaper printed several articles which hinted that it wanted to see Labour and Gordon Brown voted out of power, while at the same time it offering no explicit support for the Conservatives or their leader David Cameron – who ultimately became Prime Minister following the formation a new coalition government with the Liberal Democrats when his party failed to gain an overall majority in parliament.

The Conservatives also sparred with the Liberal Party due to its connections with French Canadian nationalists including Henri Bourassa who wanted Canada to distance itself from Britain, and demanded that Canada recognize that it had two nations, English Canada and French Canada, connected together through a common history.

Nevertheless, as the showdown on Bill C-48, a matter of confidence, loomed in the spring of 2005, the Liberals and NDP, who wanted to continue the Parliament, found themselves matched against the Conservatives and the Bloc, who were registering no confidence.

Senior Conservatives believed that Hore-Belisha was more concerned about the fate of Jewish people abroad than of Britain itself, such that he wanted Britain to wage war against Germany with the sole intention of protecting European Jews.

In the speech he vowed to make people, " feel good about being Conservatives again " and said he wanted, " to switch on a whole new generation.

", as the Liberals supposedly wanted a renewed mandate before the results of the Gomery Inquiry became public and as this would not give the Conservatives time to consolidate.

Frank Markham then drafted a list of 35 constituencies where National Labour wanted to fight and wanted the Conservatives to support them.

There are reports that some senior Conservatives wanted him removed as leader as early as 1944.

When Premier Hart retired in 1947 the Conservatives wanted Anscomb to succeed him as Premier of British Columbia but the Liberals had more seats in the legislature and insisted that the Premier should remain a Liberal resulting in the appointment of Byron Johnson as premier.

Bennett called for the Tories and Liberals to fuse into a single party, a second faction supported the status quo and a third wanted the Conservatives to leave the coalition.

Royal and Scott wanted to bring formal party politics to Manitoba ; both were Conservatives, and Scott believed that he was best positioned to become the leader of a provincial Conservative Party.

Ashdown, a strong proponent of a Lib-Lab coalition, said that from Blair's point of view, in order to get the Conservatives out of power and because he wanted to move his party towards the New Labour ideal, a coalition would strengthen his majority in the likely event of a victory.

Cowling challenged the traditional liberal assumptions over the reform crisis of the 1860s by claiming that the Liberal Party was not the straightforward progressive party that wanted to hand political power to the working-class and that the Conservatives did not promote reform in reaction to working-class pressure.

The Conservatives wanted to force an election by rejecting the budget.

There were differences within the Cabinet over Thatcher's perceived intransigence in her approach to the European Economic Community — in particular many leading Conservatives wanted Britain to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a move which Thatcher did not favour.

They are being ruthless and most determined .” After the July 1934 Night of The Long Knives, in which the Nazis ruthlessly exterminated their internal dissidents, Reith wrote: “ I really admire the way Hitler has cleaned up what looked like an incipient revolt .” After Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Nazis in 1939 he wrote: “ Hitler continues his magnificent efficiency .” Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini .. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves.

Layton intensified his attacks on the Liberal scandals, pledging to use his minority clout to keep the Conservatives in check.

Although sometimes labeled fascist according to historian Roger Eatwell: " Most of its 2000-3000 active members were Colonel Blimpish rather than fascist: in fact many of its members saw it as a Conservative ginger group ... an attempt to keep the Conservatives true to the Imperial way.

The business community feared the growing strength of the socialist CCF, and supporters of both the Liberals and the Conservatives argued that a united free market party was needed to keep the CCF from taking power.

The coalition government, whose raison d ' être had been to keep the CCF out of power, had introduced an instant-runoff voting system for the 1952 election in the hope that Conservatives and Liberal supporters would list the other party as their second choice and keep the CCF out of power.

Norquay was also affiliated with the federal Conservatives, but relied on support from local Liberals to keep his government intact.

He was lucky to keep his seat despite the swing to the Conservatives in the 1970 election, and he became an opposition spokesman on telecommunications.

During the 2010 general election she called for tactical voting to keep out the Conservatives with the hope that this would lead to a Lab-Lib coalition supporting proportional representation.

During the 2010 general election she advocated a tactical vote for whichever candidate was best able to keep the Conservatives out of power.

An example of this scenario in action is found in Saskatchewan, where the " dormant " Progressive Conservatives continued to run at least ten candidates in the province's general elections until the relevant law was amended, to keep its registration with Elections Saskatchewan ( and to avoid losing control of what is believed to be a substantial amount of money ).

Conservatives saw them as kindred spirits in the effort to keep Roosevelt from spending the country into bankruptcy.

Following the election, Elgie favoured an alliance with the New Democratic Party to keep the Progressive Conservatives in power.

He was nonetheless able to keep his government intact for four years, and in late 1940 formed a new wartime coalition government with the Conservatives, CCF and Social Credit.